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Hamirowal is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located Template:Convert away from Banga, Template:Convert from Mukandpur, Template:Convert from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Template:Convert from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.[1]
Demography
As of 2011, Hamirowal has a total number of 117 houses and population of 515 of which 257 include are males while 258 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Hamirowal is 73.03%, lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 59 which is 11.46% of total population of Hamirowal, and child sex ratio is approximately 1034 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.[2][3]
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 83.50% of total population in Hamirowal. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.[2]
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 178 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Hamirowal which includes 157 males and 21 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.31% workers describe their work as main work and 1.69% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[2][4]
Education
Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur, Sikh National College Banga and Guru Nanak College of Nursing in Dhahan are the nearest colleges.[5] Lovely Professional University is Template:Convert away from the village.
Transport
Banga railway station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is Template:Convert away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located Template:Convert away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is Template:Convert away in Amritsar.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ List of Sarpanches of Gram Panchayats in SBS Nagar district. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ District Census Handbook SBS Nagar.
- ↑ List of Schools and Colleges in SBS Nagar district.
- ↑ Distance from Hamirowal (Multiple routes).